Seinäjoen Energia orders heating plant from Renewa

Seinäjoen Energia and Renewa have signed a contract for delivery of a 45 MW heating plant. The new plant will supply peak power and reserve power, and start producing heat in autumn 2011. The plant will be manufactured in Renewa’s Lapua and Oulu workshops over the winter, and installation will begin in April 2011.

The energy company is wholly-owned by the City of Seinäjoki, and sells district heat in the Seinäjoki-Nurmo urban area. Altogether 32,000 Seinäjoki residents live in the buildings connected to the district heating network. District heat is produced in Vaskiluodon Voima Oy’s peat-fuelled power plant during the winters, and in Seinäjoen Energia’s own peat-powered heating plant in the summers. The new oil-powered heating plant will produce peak power and standby power for all customers connected to the company’s district heating network.

According to Seinäjoen Energia’s managing director Martti Haapamäki, Renewa’s offer was overall the most economic one. “The needs specified in advance in the procurement programme were analysed in more detail in negotiations with suppliers. In the end, the supplier was selected based on overall cost,” points out Haapamäki.

For further information please contact:

Managing director Martti Haapamäki, Seinäjoen Energia Oy
Tel. +358 20 760 1422, martti.haapamaki@seinajoki.fi

Sales director Kari Suominen, Renewa Oy
Tel. +358 400 352 792, kari.suominen@renewa.fi